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Just downloaded this program and really frustrated. I upgraded to the 250G cloud but it says it will take 5 days to do the back up. When I try to do a normal backup to the hard drive it says not enough space, I have 1.8T available and only backing up 786G and it wants to back up to my passport drive. I partitioned a 600G Acronis Safe Zone, tried to increase it up it won't let me increase the size and I can't seem to delete the partition. Help

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There should be a setting in True Image to disable the Secure Zone. Try that.

BTW:

I advise against creating the Acronis Secure Zone. It's a sub-optimal method of backup intended for people who have no external target to which to backup. If your drive fails, you would lose your system, files, and your Secure Zone backups.

It's much better and safer to make backup images to an external hard drive.

Also, in the past there were occasional reports of the Secure Zone causing problems to the system. When I installed Secure Zone on one PC, it corrupted the hard drive causing data loss and rendering the system unbootable. Perhaps the latest versions of Secure Zone are improved, but that experience coupled with its inherent insecurity and lack of redundancy cause me to be wary of Secure Zone.

I also recommend against the associated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. If activated, it modifies your system drive Master Boot Record (MBR), which can cause problems with multi-boot managers and other low-level disk utilities. I prefer to use the bootable Rescue Media.